Amen.
On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Ken Anderson wrote:
> Heck - I look forward to buying him drinks!
>
> On Aug 5, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Watkins, Garry wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks Mike for all of the outstanding work that you have done. I
>> look
>> forward to meeting you at WWDC.
>>
>> Garry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Schrag [mailto:mschra..dimension.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:25 PM
>> To: woproject-de..bjectstyle.org
>> Subject: Entity Modeler
>>
>> I'm calling the latest and greatest Entity Modeler "1.0 beta". It
>> appears to be working on all the models I've been running it with.
>> Here's the rundown on what it can do:
>>
>> * Read/Write EOModel bundles including EOModelGroup, EOModel,
>> EOEntity,
>> EOAttribute, EORelationship, EOJoin, EOFetchSpecification,
>> EOQualifier,
>> EOSortOrdering, EOStoredProcedure, EOArgument (i.e.
>> EOAttribute on a stored procedure), and User Info
>> * Editors for all of the above, a new EOModeler Perspective, and
>> custom
>> Outline support for all the EOModel elements
>> * Cut/Copy/Paste support for all of the above
>> * NSBundle-style discovery of EOModels that are "reachable" by your
>> project for autoloading of EOModelGroups
>> * Flattened relationships and attributes + UI (which includes a KVC
>> implementation)
>> * Prototypes, including support for writing models with missing/
>> unresolved prototypes without destroying your model (and column name
>> doesn't disappear when you change an attribute's prototype)
>> * Model verifier that finds possible model errors (runs
>> automatically at
>> startup and save, but can be run on-demand by an action as well)
>> * Inheritance "helper" that supports Horizontal, Vertical, and
>> Single-
>> Table
>> * Changing the database in your connection dictionary's URL
>> invalidates
>> and reloads prototypes on-the-fly so that datatypes are properly
>> reflected for the new prototypes
>> * .eomodelgroup files (+ creation wizard) for overriding NSBundle
>> model
>> resolution (for defining custom model groups)
>> * "Create EOGenerator File" action on .eomodeld that autogenerates an
>> EOGenerator .eogen file by looking up all referenced EOModels
>> * Auto-create .eogen files in EOModel creation wizard
>> * Automatic execution of EOGenerator when models change
>> * Diff-stable .eomodeld files by sorting appropriate plist
>> and .eomodeld
>> dictionaries and sets
>> * SQL generation and execution that runs using your runtime plugins
>> * Database Configurations (and UI to create them) on your EOModel.
>> Allows the definition of multiple connection dictionaries (along with
>> custom selection of the prototype to use). SQL Generation dialog
>> allows
>> you to choose which database config to generate with.
>> * Per-project "delegates" for SQL generation -- If you declare a
>> class
>> named "org.objectstyle.wolips.eomodeler.EOModelProcessor" in your
>> project with the API:
>> public void processModel(EOModel _model, NSMutableArray
>> _entities, NSMutableDictionary _flags);
>> public void processSQL(StringBuffer _sqlBuffer, EOModel _model,
>> NSMutableArray _entities, NSMutableDictionary _flags); you can
>> intercept
>> and modify the SQL generation process before and after the SQL
>> string is
>> created to provide customizations.
>>
>> ms
>>
>>
>>
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